https://blog.starbeam.one/articles/ Recent content on starbeam.one Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:22:27 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/07/july-2024-status-update/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:22:27 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/07/july-2024-status-update/ It'’s the first Tuesday (or Wednesday 😊) of the month. That means it’s time for the latest status update for starbeam.one! 🎨🚀✨ New Publishing Wizard Development Continues This is a shorter update, as really there has only been one item of interest to report on this past month: the New Publishing Wizard. 🧙‍♂️ I continue to develop the next version of the publishing model, which includes the New Publishing Wizard. This is a step-by-step wizard that guides the artist through the publishing process, and is a re-write for the entire previous experience. https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/06/june-2024-status-update/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:36:13 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/06/june-2024-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month, that means it’s time for a status update here on starbeam.one! ✨ starbeam.one’s Marketplace is 2 Years Old 🚀 Can you believe it’s already been two full years since I opened starbeam.one’s doors to the public with the first product release of my work, Cause? 🤯 I made seven sales that day and it was quite the event for me. Of course, after this not much happened for some time. https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/05/may-2024-status-update/ Tue, 07 May 2024 05:57:58 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/05/may-2024-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month. This means the latest monthly status update here at starbeam.one. ✨🚀 Accepted in LEAP’s Fund Your Acceleration Cohort #4 I am happy to announce that starbeam.one has been accepted into LEAP’s Fund Your Acceleration Cohort #4. This is a local program here in Lansing, funded by the state of Michigan. The program provides grants to pay for qualified services ranging from legal to marketing. https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/04/april-2024-status-update/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:17:58 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/04/april-2024-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month here at starbeam.one. This means the latest monthly status update. ✨🚀 v1.1 Released I was finally able to deploy v1.1 last month, which includes all sorts of quality updates to v1.0. With that release I finally caught up with all the technical debt I had been enduring and battling for the past few months. I am so glad that is over and I am able to finally get back to feature development. https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/03/march-2024-status-update/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:33:43 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/03/march-2024-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month, and that historically means it’s time for our monthly status update here on starbeam.one! 🚀 Back on Schedule-ish I say historically as last month was a bit of an outlier. We’re back to the first week of the month here with our cadence, and what I have been doing is filming the standup on Tuesday and then writing the blog posts on the following day. https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/02/february-2024-status-update/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:53:15 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/02/february-2024-status-update/ Two Years Since Preview Announcement From the better late than never file, this update is a little behind this month. 😊😇 I have been busy working on our new environment and configurations for v1.0. With all the activity and effort to make this happen, I decided to round out the delay to this week as it signifies a full two years since announcing the preview on February 22, 2022. Difficult to believe and accept that this is the case! https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/01/january-2024-status-update/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:54:21 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2024/01/january-2024-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month, it is time for a monthly status update! 🚀 Happy New Year 🎉 Happy New Year out there to all! I hope this new year finds you healthy and that 2024 will be a prosperous year for us all. 🙏👍 Microsoft for Startups Level 4 I am happy to announce that we have been accepted into the fourth and final level of the Microsoft for Startups program. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/12/paypal-payout-fee-adjustments/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:06:19 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/12/paypal-payout-fee-adjustments/ What’s New? We have supported PayPal Payouts since the market opened in June 2022. At that time, my impression and understanding was that fees for this service were $0.25 for each payout. It turns out this is accurate, but only for US-only payouts. International payouts are 2%. This misunderstanding was caught pretty quickly when we started to process international payouts, which comprise a majority of our payouts. I noticed that they were not always $0. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/12/december-2023-status-update/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:01:43 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/12/december-2023-status-update/ Hello to all out there, and I hope this finds your holiday season well. 🦌⛄🎅❄ It’s the first Tuesday of the month, it is time for a monthly status update! 🚀 Welcome to Beta III I am very happy to announce that today we have Beta III. This is mostly a quality release, addressing a lot of issues for administration and user account management. With this monthly update, I am going to take some time here and reflect where we are here after four years of development, with (at present) another year of runway to make something of it in a viable way. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/11/november-2023-status-update/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:57:45 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/11/november-2023-status-update/ Wow it is already November, with roughly two more months left in 2023. 🤯 It is also the first Tuesday of the month so it’s time for a monthly update. ✨🚀 Back on Track, Sort of… I am very happy to announce the return of Lady Leah. This was a huge ordeal for us, as we had to deal with a lot of Twitter dysfunction to resolve this issue – which was that her account was suspended without reason or warning. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/10/october-2023-status-update/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:24:55 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/10/october-2023-status-update/ Welcome to Beta II Welcome to the second beta of starbeam.one. This is a quality-based beta with certain key support features. Email Address Policy We now require email addresses for accounts. If you have an existing account and have already added+confirmed an email address, this has been automatically done for you. Otherwise, you will get a prompt to provide and verify an email address. New accounts will also be prompted. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/09/september-2023-status-update/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:24:19 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/09/september-2023-status-update/ It’s the first full week of the month and that means it’s time for the latest starbeam.one status update! Slow Times on the Starship Things have gotten slow here, a little slower than anticipated! This was expected as I spent more time on developing key features for support and administration. However, the one incident we did not account for was having our premiere artist account inadvertently getting suspended by Twitter. Lady Leah is our top artist with over 10,000 followers and was our primary source of marketing and promotion. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/08/august-2023-status-update/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 05:58:35 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/08/august-2023-status-update/ Believe it or not, we are in the first week of the month, which means the latest starbeam.one Status Update! 🚀 Welcome to Beta I At long last, after nearly four years of development, we are now official in beta quality. Truth be told, we probably have been in beta quality for quite some time now. Based on feedback from several members, I have made the switch to get this officially acknowledged recognized. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/07/july-2023-status-update/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:33:12 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/07/july-2023-status-update/ It is the first week of the month which means it’s time for the starbeam.one monthly update! Usually this occurs on a Tuesday, but since we were celebrating our nation’s birthday yesterday it felt a little unpatriotic to do such an activity. So today it is! 1.6K Flares of Volume in June, 54% More than May Last month I felt like tempting fate by announcing how much volume we did for the month. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/06/june-2023-status-update/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:27:01 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/06/june-2023-status-update/ Welcome to Alpha IV Yay, we made it. Welcome to Alpha IV, which is the fourth alpha release of starbeam.one. We’re releasing a new alpha every two months on our push to beta which should occur in October. 🤞 This was a better alpha for me, with Alpha III being a bit of a stressful push. Alpha IV was better and I felt like I was able to get more done. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/05/may-2023-status-update/ Wed, 03 May 2023 04:03:07 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/05/may-2023-status-update/ It’s the first week of the month, time for your monthly status update for starbeam.one! Welcome to May We are here in May, with Alpha IV scheduled for launch next month. It is very heads-down for me (a good thing) and this post will be short-and-sweet. 880 Flares of Volume, Passing 3,500 Total Last month we did 880 Flares of volume for the month, which is pretty impressive considering we did 81 total for the month of December. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/04/april-2023-status-update/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:08:28 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/04/april-2023-status-update/ It’s the first Tuesday of the month, it’s time for a monthly status update on starbeam.one! ✨🚀 Welcome to Alpha III Today we’re announcing Alpha III, which is mostly comprised of quality improvements. Alpha III was meant to be a focus on quality and also key features on administration before we start marketing our application in earnest with formal advertising spend. However, with all the sheer commotion of onboarding new users, artists, and collectors, I only managed to get quality improvements into the codebase for this alpha. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/03/march-2023-status-update/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 04:14:42 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/03/march-2023-status-update/ Yay, the first Tuesday of every month, time for a monthly status update! Erm, wait, it’s Wednesday, huh. With all the hustle and bustle of running starbeam.one lately, I’ve dedicated Tuesday to creating and publishing the Stand-up & Shine (& Shill) video, and then Wednesday to announcing it here with this blog. ✌ 1,500 Flares of Volume (500 in 2 weeks 🤯) It seems like only two weeks ago we managed to reach our first 1,000 Flares of volume after 5. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/02/announcing-alpha-ii/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 06:13:37 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/02/announcing-alpha-ii/ Today, I am announcing starbeam.one’s Alpha II. This is the second released alpha for our emerging platform and has a focus on our markets and quality. This particular alpha has been quite some time in the making, taking over four months since our Alpha I announcement. One-Year Anniversary One year ago today, after spending over two years in development solitude and surviving a pandemic, I announced the Alpha Preview to much fan fare and overwhelming market acclaim. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/02/february-2023-status-update/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 04:33:50 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/02/february-2023-status-update/ Hello February! It is the first Tuesday (or Wednesday as of late 😇) of the month and therefore time for your starbeam.one monthly status update. Nearly One Year Has Passed 🚀 I announced the preview on February 22, 2022. Can you believe that in two weeks that will be one full year? 🤯 This time last year I was uploading the different applications to Azure and learning a lot. One year later, we are actively generating revenue and running a business. https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/01/january-2023-status-update/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:27:42 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2023/01/january-2023-status-update/ Hello out there and welcome to the latest starbeam.one monthly update. As you know, I usually aim to have these out on the first Tuesday of every month. While I was able to attend to the video recording for Stand-up & Shine yesterday, I wasn’t able to get to everything else, so here we are. 🥳 Happy New Year! With that, I would like to wish everyone a happy 2023. May it be a successful one for you and all. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/12/december-2022-status-update/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:07:30 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/12/december-2022-status-update/ Season’s greetings! Woohoo, the first week of the month, and that means a status update for starbeam.one! ✨🚀 500 Sales! Nearly 150 Flares ($150) in Volume! We continue our completely organic non-advertising push here to build our market. As expected, this is a slow process but one that helps build confidence in the system at a slow and steady pace. As this is my first rodeo into the modern market I am OK with taking my time before bringing on new users through financial spending. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/11/november-2022-status-update/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:05:21 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/11/november-2022-status-update/ Welcome to the second Tuesday of the month, which means we’re way overdue for a monthly status update! A Week Off It is indeed the second Tuesday of the month. I usually aim for the first Tuesday, but I have recently been running into troubles with my recording software and they have been thankfully resolved. So today we are back on track, recording today and again in two weeks from now on the 22nd. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/10/october-2022-status-update/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:54:59 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/10/october-2022-status-update/ Woohoo it’s the first Tuesday of the month. That means it’s time for your latest monthly starbeam.one status update. ✨ Welcome to the Phase I Alpha! Today marks the official beginning of the Phase I Alpha (or “Alpha I”) of starbeam.one. As you might recall, we started with the preview back in February, and then the Friends & Family Alpha in June. Since then it’s been a mad dash to arrive to this point. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/09/september-2022-status-update/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 14:43:39 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/09/september-2022-status-update/ It’s the first Tuesday of every month, meaning your latest starbeam.one status update is here. Let’s begin! Finishing Tasks The past few weeks have been really focused on the Administration Application, which can be viewed as a CMS application around the entire starbeam.one system. I wanted a way to quickly jump through all the different entities of the system and I am pleased to say that I finally have a first version that I am happy with using. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/08/august-2022-status-update/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:42:32 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/08/august-2022-status-update/ Welcome! It’s the first Tuesday of every month, and that means the latest starbeam.one Status Update! Let’s begin here. Program Notes Astute readers will realize that I am posting this on a Thursday, and not a Tuesday. While I was able to record the latest Stand-up & Shine (and Shill) on Tuesday, I was not able to post it until this morning. There were a few issues with post-video production that took quite a bit of time and retakes. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/07/july-2022-status-update/ Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:28:55 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/07/july-2022-status-update/ It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means! It’s time for your starbeam.one monthly update. It Be Awkward There’s an expression that I learned from Jim Caldwell, a former Detroit Lions coach (and still my favorite after Jim Schwartz). He used an expression that, turns out, is also used in the military: get comfortable being uncomfortable. That’s sort of where I am at with the present moment. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/06/june-2022-status-update/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:21:51 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/06/june-2022-status-update/ Introducing the Friends & Family Alpha Today, I am pleased to announce the Friends & Family Alpha available for use at alpha.starbeam.one. What is It? The friends and family alpha is pretty much the same product and release as the alpha preview released back in February but with the addition of commerce providers, which allows real “live” money for use within the system. We now feature the following commerce providers for purchasing Flares, starbeam. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/05/may-2022-status-update/ Tue, 03 May 2022 14:19:22 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/05/may-2022-status-update/ Welcome! Hello out there and welcome to your monthly starbeam.one update, which occurs on the first Tuesday of every month. Things Are Better Now Last month featured all sorts of problems, which I am glad to say most if not all have been resolved. Rather than a raging inferno, the landscape is more of a (manageable 😁) smoldering mess. I have attended to most of the pressing concerns and have moved onto building features again. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/04/april-2022-status-update/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 05:18:40 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/04/april-2022-status-update/ Why hello there! It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means it’s time for your next installment of starbeam.one monthly status updates. Everything is on Fire… Sometimes the expression “on fire” can be a good thing. Most of the times it is not. Currently, the state of this project is in the latter, unfortunately. Every day seems like a new challenge or something else breaking. I am currently attending to each one as the only person on this project at the moment and making due with the resources and limitations presented to me. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/03/introducing-stand-up-and-shine-weekly-stand-ups/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:56:21 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/03/introducing-stand-up-and-shine-weekly-stand-ups/ Hello everyone and welcome to your next installment of starbeam.one monthly updates. Except, it’s no longer monthly, but is now weekly. And it’s no longer in a blog, but in a video. Yes, I am switching up things here a bit with the format here at starbeam.one. Going forward, I am going to attempt to update you with a weekly video update in an agile stand-up format, featuring such topics as: https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/02/announcing-mvp-alpha-preview/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 06:37:19 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/02/announcing-mvp-alpha-preview/ What Now?! WOW… today is the day, and I am beside myself to finally be here and make this announcement. Today marks the result of over two years of development on a single goal, having started in October 2019: to create a centralized marketplace where users can sell and resell digital ownership in the form of digital licenses. What the Heck is this thing?! starbeam.one is a Digital Publishing Starship™ that allows you to purchase and resell digital licenses produced by artists on a provided primary and secondary markets, respectively. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/02/microsoft-for-startups-application-accepted/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:27:58 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/02/microsoft-for-startups-application-accepted/ Accepted! I am so very happy to announce that Microsoft for Startups has accepted my Founders Hub application! This is beyond exhilarating for me, as this is the first external validation I have received for my product. This process was very different from the previous one that I experienced with BizSpark. Whereas BizSpark seemed to allow anyone into their program, the Founders Hub application seemed more serious and discerning with its candidates. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/01/february-2022-status-update/ Sat, 29 Jan 2022 13:40:16 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/01/february-2022-status-update/ Welcome to the next installment of monthly starbeam.one updates. Playground Alpha Deployed to Azure In the last status update, I mentioned that my focus for January was getting the Playground Alpha deployed to Azure. I am pleased to announce that this was accomplished after much configuration and trial+error (and much more error!). The Playground Alpha is deployed to Azure, and I have been totally blown away by how relatively easy it was to do so, despite all the challenges and errors. https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/01/january-2022-status-update/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 05:35:23 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2022/01/january-2022-status-update/ Well well… Happy New Year out there and hope everyone is doing well as they read this, considering the current circumstances and environment we find ourselves in this otherwise promising new year. Let’s get on with the latest update here… Playground Alpha Feature Complete To start, I am pleased to announce that the playground alpha is feature complete and ready for deployment. What that means is that the Playground Alpha, slated for availability next month, will allow you to use all the features of starbeam. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/12/december-2021-status-update/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 06:13:09 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/12/december-2021-status-update/ Greetings and Happy Holidays. Here is your next installment of starbeam.one monthly updates. I feel the need to say this each time, but yes, I am still alive. 😊 I am also a bit late this time around, having skipped the November update. Originally, I was aiming for the middle of November, but the final feature task that I was working on took way longer than I anticipated… again. 😅😭 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/10/the-digital-license-is-a-relationship/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:33:16 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/10/the-digital-license-is-a-relationship/ There is something I have been thinking about lately, and I wanted to be sure to capture it here. With the whole NFT mania (quite literally what it is), we get the feeling it is more about what people want and desire rather than what is actually there. After all, an NFT in one blockchain isn’t exactly unique if it also exists in another. Let’s also not forget that any blockchain at any time can be forked, leading to an instant doubling (or worse, if other forks occur) to any “unique” instance contained within it. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/10/october-2021-status-update/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 03:50:07 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/10/october-2021-status-update/ Goodness, has it been two months already? I have been in a total coding slog since the last checkin, having to battle two coding fronts that address technical debt concerns: Identity System (95% complete) Entity Framework Data Access Refactor (65% complete) The Entity Framework story is a bit further along than it suggests. Part of the issue is that currently all worker processes run in session scope, which makes sense. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/08/august-2021-status-update/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 07:30:55 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/08/august-2021-status-update/ Well I am still kicking and coding here. I wanted to take a breath here and check in with progress. Not that there is much of any. 😅😭 While I have been plugging some insane hours lately, I have recently been ambushed by the identity system. It was basically like writing a whole new application. What I have built, however, is pretty neat and I am happy with it. Unfortunately, it has pushed my schedule out further, however, so I am trying to deal with the anxiety that goes along with it. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/07/july-2021-status-update/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:53:32 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/07/july-2021-status-update/ Well it’s July, and as mentioned last time, it’s time to take a break. Except… I don’t want to take a break. 😅😭 I think I mentioned that I am working on the identity system. Indeed, I have taken a wrecking ball to this sucker and it is now officially wrecked. I’ve been picking up the pieces and putting them back together, but it’s been taking WAY longer than expected. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/startup-battlefield-retrospective/ Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:34:29 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/startup-battlefield-retrospective/ Some time has passed since I got myself riled up and did a very brash thing with the Startup Battlefield 2021 Application. I wanted to put some thoughts here around it as I have found writing helps get me out of my design/development funk. Not that I am in a funk right now, but I’d like things to be a bit crisper than they are. So my feelings on the entire ordeal are a bit conflicted. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/june-2021-status-update/ Sat, 12 Jun 2021 03:56:12 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/june-2021-status-update/ Well, alright. After all the commotion of last month, I’ve been finding it quite difficult to settle down and get back into the development groove. What I find interesting is that my life is quite perfect right now for development (ala no emails, etc.), and even then it takes several days if not a full week to get me back in the zone for the 10-12 hour day slog. Naturally, such a long time-to-focus process gives me a lot of concern for when things get “busy” (ala the email train) again. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/your-private-key-can-be-guessed/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 07:40:25 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/06/your-private-key-can-be-guessed/ One final thought here and I’ll finish. I promise. 😁 In addition to some of the risks I outlined earlier in this article with regards to cryptocurrency, there’s one in particular that I feel needs extra mention. Namely, the private key that keeps your value safe is simply a number: a very very very large number. That conceivably means that if someone guesses that number, they have access to your wallet. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/decentralization-is-a-foreign-land/ Sun, 30 May 2021 03:32:56 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/decentralization-is-a-foreign-land/ Continuing my spontaneous series here. 😁 I have been studying the decentralized space since late June 2017, so nearly four years now. If I was attending college then you could say that I am a graduate in such matters (assuming I acquired all my credits, something I failed to do in real live BUT I DIGRESS). There’s a certain quality or metric that has seemed elusive to decentralization during that time, and that is adoption. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/startup-battlefield-2021-application/ Thu, 27 May 2021 10:42:29 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/startup-battlefield-2021-application/ On our last check-in, I mentioned working on some finishing features and then moving onto videos. WELLLLLLLLL as it turns out, during that time a nifty article popped up across my RSS feed that I could not archive: Deadline extended: Apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021 Extended?! Not by one but by TWO weeks? I started to look at the dates and schedule, and a butterflies-in-the-belly notion started to take hold: could I possibly conceive submitting an application to the tippy-top of all tech events and jump for the improbable if not impossible? https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/publishing-vs-gallery/ Thu, 27 May 2021 00:22:20 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/publishing-vs-gallery/ Everyone is trying to get rich off of NFTs. To me, this is a natural extension of the blockchain culture, which emphasizes money and a get-rich (quick) mentality. I am not against this (much 😁), but it does warrant some caution. To be sure, there’s no such thing as a quick buck in life. You might get lucky, sure, but can you replicate this luck at scale? Good luck with that. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-blockchain-is-just-an-application/ Thu, 27 May 2021 00:22:01 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-blockchain-is-just-an-application/ The blockchain is just an application. Everyone is going nuts over blockchain now that they see it can be used for commerce, despite its awkwardness and efficiency concerns. In the hysteria, the whole premise of the blockchain has taken on a bigger concept than it actually is. But let’s keep in mind that a blockchain is basically an application. It’s an application that runs on one or more computers (nodes) that comprise a network. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-biggest-threat/ Thu, 27 May 2021 00:05:29 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-biggest-threat/ I guess now that I have spent the past week preparing for the Startup Battlefield 2021 Application (seriously, it took a lot!), I am more in the writing mood and can start putting together some additional thoughts around what I have been working on and the field I am entering here with starbeam.one. Recently I have been assessing risks. Of course, the biggest risk with any company is that it could fail. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-opportunity-as-i-see-it/ Mon, 24 May 2021 09:14:20 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/the-opportunity-as-i-see-it/ To my mind, the “Creator Economy” (buzzwords, ugh) is much like the “Real Estate Economy” (😛) and can be divided into two segments: Digital leasing Digital ownership Digital leasing should be familiar to anyone who has owned a computer since forever. It’s really the only way we have interfaced with digital “assets” ever since we have been able to copy them into a directory and subsequently paste them infinitely across as many devices we own and/or illicit networks of which we may (or may not 😇) be a member. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/may-2021-status-update/ Wed, 05 May 2021 02:24:23 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/05/may-2021-status-update/ Goodness, what a run. I have basically been on a development tear since the last check-in, clocking about 10-12 hours a day. I guess that’s my typical schedule, but all of it has been totally dedicated to disciplined development, which is the ideal. So upon last check-in I believe I was spilling about having some videos done by now, which WAS ALL A LIE. 😅 Shows you for taking the time to believe me. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/03/march-2021-status-update/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 03:00:50 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/03/march-2021-status-update/ Aw jyea… I am finding myself with the time to write a status update, so that must mean I am in another creative jam. 😆 Well it’s not that bad, but I thought I would take a few seconds to chime in here. Things are going pretty well. I am down to one last feature item, which should take about two weeks (🤞). Then after that, it’s off to the races with completing deferred tasks. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/02/confronting-competition/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 05:05:34 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/02/confronting-competition/ It’s been a tough week here. What compounds it is that I was really on a roll there, ahead of schedule and cooking with momentum. That all seems like ancient history right now, so I guess I am spending some of my time here “getting my house in order.” First, Twitter is such a distraction. A double-edged sword, really. I use it to find out the latest news, but then I find out about all the sites out there that could be considered “my competition. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/02/february-2021-status-update/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:35:39 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/02/february-2021-status-update/ Well, another checkin so it must mean I am stuck somewhere again. 😁 Indeed, another bout of “The Analysis” has struck, so I am left staring at the ceiling for hours at a time, awaiting the inspiration to save me. There’s also Twitter, which I find myself switching to uncontrollably to find the latest news – whatever it may be. I am getting close, however. This is the last task involving “new” analysis, and this is one of three tasks (or stories) remaining. https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/01/january-2021-status-update/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:00:00 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2021/01/january-2021-status-update/ Happy New Year… ish. 😁 I am having a little down time – a case of the January’s as it were – so I decided to check in here with a little update. Things are actually running at a pretty good clip here. In fact, I hesitate to mention it but I am in a bit of a groove as of late, pretty much writing solutions and supporting code at will. https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/12/december-2020-status-update/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:20:29 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/12/december-2020-status-update/ December 2020… I cannot believe we’re in the final month of the year, yet here we are nonetheless. I am actually a few weeks behind on this post, but good to have gotten to it late than never. This past month for me was easily the most productive. In fact, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel here. I have been slamming out code and putting things together in a way that has been incredibly rewarding and efficient at the same time. https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/minding-distractions/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:17:42 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/minding-distractions/ Well I guess I am on a roll here. 😁 I’ve been spending some time on Twitter lately, and it’s made me realize what a gigantic distraction it is. Not just it, but any social media. It’s so addictive, and once you’re bought in, it’s all the more difficult to ween away. I abruptly (rage quit) Facebook in 2019. March 14th (Pi Day) to be exact. It totally totally sucked the first year or so for me, because I felt I basically abandoned all my online friends. https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/analysis-is-the-most-difficult/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:42:32 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/analysis-is-the-most-difficult/ Of all the phases of development, analysis is the most difficult. For me, at least. I am currently the business analyst for my startup. Well, technically, I am every freaking role of my startup as I am the only one working on it right now. However, what I mostly do is analysis, user experience, and of course, software development. Out of each of those, analysis is the most challenging for me. https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/november-2020-status-update/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:44:23 -0500 https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/11/november-2020-status-update/ Woooooooooo buddy, am I wayyyyyyyy overdue for a status update here. I’ve actually been thinking about typing up an update for a while. 2020 has been super crazy, and I am no exception. I feel like I have lost 3 months worth of progress and velocity due to the pandemic. But, I have been lucky enough to keep on plucking along here, developing Starbeam One for majority of the year. In fact, the light at the end of the tunnel is starting to emerge, and I am feeling it’s about 3 more months until I am “structurally complete” (with major stories completed) and then “feature complete” (all stories needed for an MVP) a few months after that. https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/01/hello-world/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:59:56 -0400 https://blog.starbeam.one/2020/01/hello-world/ Hello world! I am excited to announce my efforts here with The Starbeam Project. Although, in my life I have found that it is best not to mention intention and plans but to actually put forth the effort. If all goes well, this project will represent the next phase and major chapter in my life. I am pretty pumped about this vision and plan to spend the next several years developing it in one form or another.